Armed Summoners - Black Spears and the Brave Men of the Other World

Episode Two Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty Four: The Shadow of God (9)

"That's the first word."

If Setuna returned his words exactly as they were, Niewehein put them away for a few seconds. Then I shake my head every now and then.

It's not the first time.

"I'm just trying to imitate you, aren't I?"

"Kids."

"Better than you wanting to die."

Setuna, though this behold beheld him with a sigh, does not know if his sincerity was conveyed to him. Anyway, Niewehein was throwing an extremely chilling knob over here.

"... answer the question. Why didn't you kill me then? I tried to kill you."

"It's not your will, is it?"

"I don't know..."

It is from his gaze wandering through the void that Kneewehein is choosing words. Eventually, the gaze stops at Setsuna as well.

"It could be my heart, right?

"Are you going to kill me?

Setsuna turned true to the silliness of it all. Hands behind your head and keep your back in the chair.

He said, "If you're joking, make it funny."

"It's not funny because it's not a joke"

"Huh?"

"I... envy you. So, take you--"

"Totally... I don't know. Just keep joking. Otherwise, I'm gonna get really mad."

Setuna raised her voice and glared at him, trying to forcefully cut off Niewehein's words. Most of all, I knew how awesome it was and it didn't actually work for him at all.

Niewehein was staring straight at this one.

"I mean it. I'm not kidding. I don't know what I would have thought if I had the power like you."

"... that's what I meant."

Seeing that his heart was somewhat distracted by the words uttered by Niewehein, Setuna unwrapped her hand, which she was trying to support her back of the head, and placed it on her leg. It's not like he doesn't know how he feels.

He was the summoner of the Black Spear's family Edge of Surst and continued to be strong as a user of the Edge of Surst by defeating multiple family users. Even the remaining family members and the main black spear arrived just before we could get them. One more step, lost to Setuna just a few moments and lost his power. At that time, if Niewehein had been the winner, the status quo would have changed dramatically.

He may have been able to launch a unified empire and create a completely indispensable state without the help of the Setunas or anything else.

Even if we didn't get that far, we would have been able to protect everyone around us.

Though.

"Right. You were going to kill me and take the spear away from me."

"Yes."

"Niewe."

Setuna, once again, stared at Niewehein, but he looked at this one with a strange look, and it felt like he was being poked at in the void. Because it was a completely different reaction than I expected.

"At least that's what I was thinking."

"... what?

Unexpectedly, let your hips float.

Kneewehein comes in with an answer by making sure he looks into the void.

"I did ask. That's when I heard you rejoicing the moment you summoned the Black Spear."

"Is that what you mean..."

"I just don't know deep down. All I know is that I was being manipulated by something back then. That I tried to kill you through the area I was afflicted with this albinism. That's all."

"... it would be God"

"God?"

"Yes, God."

I assure you, calm your hips in the chair.

"You taught me before. What the hell is albinism? Once and for all, on what rationale can albinism develop and a monster emerge that is divine or beast? Can it be done?"

"Oh. You heard me. Divine authority...... you were"

It was Kneewehein, who tried to dig it out of the depths of his memory and crushed it, but made his eyes gleam as if he had guessed something.

"Right. Did God, the source of the divine authority that erodes my body, recognize you through me and try to kill you? Why?"

"You were right."

"Black spear?"

"Discover"

Affirmed, exhaled deeply.

If you look down at your hands, the feeling of gripping the black spear pattern comes back to life with ease, and events between the true spirits pass behind your brain like they did yesterday. The angel-stained monster that emerged from the whitened area was certainly willing and aimed at Setuna. It is also evident from the fact that he was only trying to kill Setuna by completely silencing Meatier and Rem waiting outside. And the monotonous attack is also a testament to the fact that that angel was out of hand in a way. Haven't you attacked Setuna at a rate you can cope with because it makes no sense to kill her before letting her summon a black spear? Even after Setuna summoned the black spear, there has been no change in the attack itself, either because it was the limit of the power given to the angel, but whether it is also right.

"Black spear...... Chaos Bringer seems to be called the wand of the Demon King by the gods. It's only recently that I found out what it means… well, it seems certain that it is extremely troublesome for the gods"

"Hmm..."

"The black spear is that the wand of the Demon King is a means of confronting the few gods. One of the few beings capable of destroying God who should be eternal, absolute immortality. That's the Demon King's wand."

"... was it that far?"

It would also be natural for Niewehein not to be able to hide his surprise. He is nothing but a summoner for the Edge of Thurst. There's a big difference in perceptions about black spears between Setsuna, the summoner of black spears chaos bringers. No, in the first place, it wasn't just as soon as I became a summoner that I learned that even Setuna, Chaos Bringer, had so much power.

I understood from the outset that it was a powerful summoning arm, but I can't imagine, though, that it was something that would have the power to destroy God as well, etc.

"So many of the gods hate me for being a black spear user."

Do you mean Mayuri is an exception?

"Oh, Lord Mayuri."

I emphasised it even more only because I did not want to include the Mayura God, the demigod of the Mayuri God. Apart from the Mayuri God, there are gods that can be considered exceptions. Led by Lyohan's patron saint Malik, so will the sea god Mauau, the fighting god Rajam. The Mauau God was able to deepen mutual understanding through dialogue, and the Rajam God found pleasure in his pure struggle against Setuna, the user of black spears. Malik, there is no need for God.

"I see. Not all gods are hostile to you, are they?"

But a lot of them will have to be enemies.

"... Nair Gandia"

Niewehein looks sinister. Information on Nair Gandia is provided to Niewehein by the Setuna side.

"I don't know why they call themselves Nea Gandhia, and I don't want to know... but I think their organization has to be smashed down,"

"Does it mean that many gods belong and some have comparable powers to God? To Nair Gandia. Does it make sense to fight those people? What's the winner?

"It makes sense. But I don't see any wins so far."

"Hmm..."

"If there's room for negotiation with Nair Gandia, I will. I wanted to explore the possibility of dialogue. But I'm not. That's not who I'm dealing with. They're human lives, I don't know what to think."

Setuna recognized Nea Gandia as her enemy when she saw the moment when Malware was devastated by a divine artillery fired from a supermassive ark, when one of the Malways remained and turned into a divine man. If we let it go, we might be able to disappear humans from this world. No, it's not just humans. Wouldn't every living thing, non-living thing, change?

In fact, that's already starting to happen.

Even if all of that is not caused by Nair Gandia, there is no doubt that it is one cause.

"The God who manipulated you, the God who manipulated Zenelfer, could be the God of Nea Gandia"

"God who was manipulating Zenelfer......?

Niewehein looked surprised.

"I heard about Zenelfer's upside, but that's the first time that God was manipulating him. What the hell are you doing? Why did you hide it?"

'Cause it's uncertain.'

Setuna told Niewehein details about the upside of Surfajour, without going badly. There is no certainty that Zenelfer was manipulated by God. But there will be no doubt that Zenelfer used God's protection and seemingly only good abilities, and that there was also God's intervention. But I don't know the details. Shortly after Zenelfer's demise, Setuna doesn't even know if the gaze she felt belonged to God or something else.

Communicating even such information can cause confusion, and speculation can call for speculation and sprinkle anxiety on a united empire that is just beginning to move.

Because of these circumstances, the report submitted by Setuna and the others to the Unified Imperial Government meant that there had been an exchange of information.

Kneewehein has once again shown his gratitude when he shows an understanding of the considerations of those Setunas.

It goes without saying that the Setunas were able to minimize the damage because they hit the Resistance Crusade.